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Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can by crote on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:47PM (#36449346)
The plane was introduced nearly 70 years ago. Why would they keep around obsolete machines for which the last plane left the factory literally decades ago?
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Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can by jollyllama on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:58PM (#36449480)
That's my point, you don't need specialty machines to make trash cans; it's going to be the same types of sheet metal benders that are used for other simple fixtures.
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